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    Ransom for Hire: Shadows of His Past: Ransom for Hire, #3
    Ransom for Hire: Shadows of His Past: Ransom for Hire, #3
    Ransom for Hire: Shadows of His Past: Ransom for Hire, #3
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    Ransom for Hire: Shadows of His Past: Ransom for Hire, #3

    By Shawn J. Wells

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    Jack Ransom is a man caught between two worlds. Good and bad, light and dark, evil and...worse. Once upon a time, he was a gun for hire for the worst of humanity and the scariest things of the paranormal. He was good at his job. He was the best.

    Still is.

    He turned his back on all of that for the love of a woman, and tried to make his past his past. Until a demon offered him a deal to save the life of that same woman, his wife Julia. Ransom agreed to work for the demon until the debt was paid off. But he forgot the most important thing when making deals with demons:

    Don't make deals with demons.

    Now he's trying everything he can to get out from under the demon Al'Gamesh's control, and take revenge for what was done to his wife. Everyone knows you can't just call out a demon. Not without proof. Ransom has to find the evidence he needs to bring his case before the Hierarch. Without the Hierarch's blessing, Al'Gamesh will get away with what he's done to Ransom and his wife.

    Now a mysterious man with ties to Ransom's past has come to him with an offer that might solve all of his problems. He wants Ransom to kill a man. Not just any man, either. This is one of the men who kidnapped his wife. Here's the proof Ransom needs. It's his for the taking. It sounds too good to be true.

    Because it is.

    Everything Ransom has ever done in his past has caught up to him again. Fighting his way through the city streets of Memphis, avoiding shadowy creatures and trigger happy assassins, he must protect the very man he wants to kill so badly.

    At least until he can figure out a way to make him stay dead permanently.

    Hard to kill someone who's immortal.

    It's going to be a long day. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShawn J. Wells
    Release dateJan 1, 2014
    ISBN9781498911085
    Ransom for Hire: Shadows of His Past: Ransom for Hire, #3
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    Shawn J. Wells

    Living in rural Northern New York, Shawn J. Wells divides his time between writing and a "real" job, although it's easy for him to say which one gives him more satisfaction. Wells looks at writing as a gift, and one meant to be shared.  He is married and together with his wife, Heather, raises three boys all similar in age.  Some days it's a toss-up which holds more adventure, the world he creates while writing or his own living room.

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